This is one of the difficulties with complex bases. Some of the skulks needs to be submerged in water. Not only do I have to create an illusion of a deep water, but I also have to integrate some (if not many) of the skulks into the base before I paint the base and before I do the water. This again mean that I soon have to decide about the painting scheme…
To make matters even worse all of my skulks will be converted from regular orcs, and I am running out of bows and left arms. Luckily the shield arm can be placed so that shield below the water surface (and cut off).
There are some more things to remember too. I need to paint the stones both below and above water in different colours, and the fish… I need to add some vegetation at some point. More skulks also need to be integratet as they come up from the water. And lastly, as i paint all these bases, and the models on them, all the other bases needs to be paintet too, and if i want anything to be submerged on them to, that also need to happen pretty soon.
So I guess I am just hacking and gluing and shaping away at the moment…
Ps: I made a mistake already. Should have glued the orcs down before I added the sand. Oh well…
I’m still thinking about a decent and fun list. Therefore, I’m making more units than I need for 2300 points. This way I can decide to remove the cavalry (bottom left), Orclings (bottom right), Winged Slasher (top left), Wardrum on Chariot (top right) or Gore chariots (top senter). I also have the option of making the center chariot base Gore chariots and the rest (six!) Skulk chariots.
Most importantly the list is no longer weak. It is both shooty, fast, and suprisingly hard hitting. It has a good amount of drops and packs a desent amount of unit strength. To top it all of it has some great synergies from the heroes. This is quite dangerous for this project as I find myself starting to have ambitions. Not good.
The list is approximately like this:
5 units of skulks (uppgraded to Me 4+ and pathfinder)
5 units of skulk chariots (with bows)
War drum with dread
The formation (2 fighty chariots with slayer/rampage d3 and a war drum with bane chant and mindfog)
Skulk stalker with upgrade (wild charge +d3 to trackers (skulks))
ASB (rampage aura)
Krusher on foot (with wild charge +1)
Troll bruiser
18 drops and nothing has more than 2US.
Next step:
Build, paint, play as much as possible!
